FOR ANYTHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does for anything mean? 

• FOR ANYTHING (adverb)
  The adverb FOR ANYTHING has 1 sense:

1. under any circumstances

  Familiarity information: FOR ANYTHING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOR ANYTHING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under any circumstances

Synonyms:

for all the world; for any price; for anything; for love or money

Context example:

she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money

 Context examples 

"Make yourself perfectly at home," said the green girl, "and if you wish for anything ring the bell. Oz will send for you tomorrow morning."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Do not settle for anything less than your ideal space.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You was sleepin' jes' too comfortable for anything," Henry told him, as he routed him out for breakfast.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well, sir, replied Mr. Chillip, a medical man, being so much in families, ought to have neither eyes nor ears for anything but his profession.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They move in the best society, are valuable persons for us to know, and I wouldn't fail to make a good impression there for anything.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If he has been kidnapped, it could not have been for anything which he himself possesses.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Life has so filled me that I am empty of any desire for anything.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Before Elizabeth had time for anything but a blush of surprise, Mrs. Bennet answered instantly, Oh dear!—yes—certainly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was really shock, rather than any injury, which had prostrated me, and in half-an-hour, in spite of aching head and stiff neck, I was sitting up and ready for anything.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is time to think of our visitors,” said Maria, still feeling her hand pressed to Henry Crawford's heart, and caring little for anything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)